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North Rhine-Westphalia
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Federal State

Celebrities from North Rhine-Westphalia

154 memorials
1,297 Funeral Homes
3 cemeteries
62 Cities & Districts
Celebrities128

North Rhine-Westphalia: 128 memorial pages

of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here

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Portrait of Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) – memorial page

Memorial

Christoph Schlingensief

10/24/1960 – 08/21/2010

49 years

German theatre and film director, playwright, and performance artist

Berlin
1
Family Tree
TA

Memorial

Theo Albrecht

03/28/1922 – 07/24/2010

88 years

German entrepreneur

Essen
24
CA
Portrait of Carl Adam Petri (1926–2010) – memorial page

Memorial

Carl Adam Petri

07/12/1926 – 07/02/2010

83 years

German mathematician

Siegburg
2
SP
Portrait of Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) – memorial page

Memorial

Sigmar Polke

02/13/1941 – 06/10/2010

69 years

German artist

Köln
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WK

Memorial

Werner Krämer

01/23/1940 – 02/12/2010

70 years

German footballer

Duisburg
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Family Tree
PS
Portrait of Petra Schürmann (1933–2010) – memorial page

Memorial

Petra Schürmann

09/15/1933 – 01/14/2010

76 years

German actress and model

Starnberg
1
Family Tree
OG
Portrait of Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009) – memorial page

Memorial

Otto Graf Lambsdorff

12/20/1926 – 12/05/2009

82 years

German politician

Bonn
17
HS
Portrait of Horst Szymaniak (1934–2009) – memorial page

Memorial

Horst Szymaniak

08/29/1934 – 10/09/2009

75 years

German footballer

Osnabrück District
1
RR

Memorial

Rolf Rüssmann

10/13/1950 – 10/02/2009

58 years

German footballer

Gelsenkirchen
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PB
Portrait of Pina Bausch (1940–2009) – memorial page

Memorial

Pina Bausch

07/27/1940 – 06/30/2009

68 years

German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director

Wuppertal
2
RD
Portrait of Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009) – memorial page

Memorial

Ralf Dahrendorf

05/01/1929 – 06/17/2009

80 years

German-British sociologist, politician

Köln
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CM
Portrait of Charlie Mariano (1923–2009) – memorial page

Memorial

Charlie Mariano

11/12/1923 – 06/16/2009

85 years

American jazz saxophonist

Köln
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HT
Portrait of Horst Tappert (1923–2008) – memorial page

Memorial

Horst Tappert

05/26/1923 – 12/13/2008

85 years

German actor

Planegg
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MK
Portrait of Mauricio Kagel (1931–2008) – memorial page

Memorial

Mauricio Kagel

12/24/1931 – 09/18/2008

76 years

Argentine-German composer

Köln
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HK

Memorial

Heinrich Kwiatkowski

07/16/1926 – 05/23/2008

81 years

German footballer

Dortmund
1
Family Tree
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Portrait of Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager (1917–2008) – memorial page

Memorial

Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager

09/06/1917 – 05/01/2008

90 years

German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler

Burg Kreuzberg
16
Family Tree
KS
Portrait of Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007) – memorial page

Memorial

Karlheinz Stockhausen

08/22/1928 – 12/05/2007

79 years

German composer

Kürten
14
JD
Portrait of Jupp Derwall (1927–2007) – memorial page

Memorial

Jupp Derwall

03/10/1927 – 06/26/2007

80 years

German association football player and manager

Sankt Ingbert
1
JI

Memorial

Jörg Immendorff

06/14/1945 – 05/28/2007

61 years

German artist

Düsseldorf
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Family Tree
MW
Portrait of Markus Wolf (1970–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Markus Wolf

08/04/1970 – 10/11/2025

55 years

Head of the East German foreign intelligence service during the Cold War

Dortmund
13
Family Tree
RB
Portrait of Rainer Barzel (1924–2006) – memorial page

Memorial

Rainer Barzel

06/20/1924 – 08/26/2006

82 years

German politician

München
23
Family Tree
HD
Portrait of Hilde Domin (1909–2006) – memorial page

Memorial

Hilde Domin

née Hildegard Dina Löwenstein

07/27/1909 – 02/22/2006

96 years

German writer

Heidelberg
13
Family Tree
RK

Memorial

Reinhart Koselleck

04/23/1923 – 02/03/2006

82 years

German historian

Bad Oeynhausen
11
JR
Portrait of Johannes Rau (1931–2006) – memorial page

Memorial

Johannes Rau

01/16/1931 – 01/27/2006

75 years

German politician (SPD), 8th president of Germany from 1999 until 2004

Berlin
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